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In a day, we have different names for different times of it. For example, morning, afternoon, night, evening, noon.

I need a hypernym for them all. What word should I use?

RegDwigнt
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Saeed Neamati
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  • http://english.stackexchange.com/q/97129/14666 http://english.stackexchange.com/q/101796/14666 http://english.stackexchange.com/q/192328/14666 – Kris Apr 21 '15 at 14:25
  • Please search previous posts first. Of course, they may not have an answer acceptable/ suitable for you, but still. – Kris Apr 21 '15 at 14:25
  • May have to settle for "part of day" to be precise. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Parts_of_a_day – Kris Apr 21 '15 at 14:35
  • (Remotely) related: http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/28498/precise-names-for-parts-of-a-day – Kris Apr 21 '15 at 14:39
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    @Kris, of course I've searched before. But the question is, how would you search, when you don't know the keyword(s)? That was a little unfair in my opinion. – Saeed Neamati Apr 21 '15 at 15:16
  • Saeed, didn't I? :) – Kris Apr 21 '15 at 15:17
  • Yeah, you did. However, you should both look at your score, and at the same time it seems that you're a native English speaker. Those things affect the search. I did search for what I wanted, and of course I searched Google before SE, but couldn't find anything. – Saeed Neamati Apr 21 '15 at 15:24
  • Saeed, It's just that someone wanting to post a question is required, or at least expected, to check first. Good Luck, anyway. – Kris Apr 21 '15 at 15:26
  • Has been asked several times already. – Kris Apr 22 '15 at 05:21

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The hypernym for the different times of day is, rather unsurprisingly, time of day:

Hyponyms

dawn, morning, noon/midday, afternoon, evening, dusk, night, midnight (Category: en:Times of day)

And nobody at all calls them day periods or day sections.

RegDwigнt
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What about day period?

With period from wordreference :

- an extent of time meaningful in the life of a person, in history, etc.

- a round of time marked by some repeating event or action

- any of the parts into which something, as a school day, etc., is divided

Yohann V.
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Although I doubt it's standard, we have often used the term day parts, for example when creating separate faces for an animated clock, we'd place them all in a folder called /dayparts

Jim Mack
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